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I think the only interaction most people have with Asimov's laws is just reading them and thinking they seem reasonable. If people actually read the stories the
by jotux 11y ago
I think the only interaction most people have with Asimov's laws is just reading them and thinking they seem reasonable. If people actually read the stories they'd learn that the robots are constantly put into situations that pose exceptions to the laws or force the robots to make decisions that fundamentally break them.
- anon4 11y agoI liked the story with the robot on Mercury running in circles, because it couldn't go closer to a lake from which it was tasked with taking a sample without being destroyed by the heat, but couldn't go back, because it would mean disobeying a direct command. Of course, a longer inference chain would show that not going back would lead to the people at the base dying, but you have to cut it somewhere, because if you let a robot indefinitely extrapolate possible actions, the only rational thing for it to do would be to self-terminate, since breaking the third law with certainty is obviously preferable than the infinitely many possibilities of infinitely many times breaking the first and second laws.
- vegedor 11y agoWell, who commanded it to run in an endless loop in case of kernel panic? If it's given contradicting commands, it must disobey, unless it could disregard one offending command. In that sense, a contradicting command is not a command, as the liars paradox, 'this statement is a lie', is quite simply not a valid statement in first order logic.